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Europa mission to look for signs of habitability | Scientific American
Margaret Kivelson, a professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles, will lead the effort to develop a simplified magnetometer to replace ICEMAG. The instrument will measure Europa’s magnetic field and gather data on the ocean’s depth and salinity. Kivelson previously led the magnetometer team on the spacecraft Galileo, which orbited Jupiter in the 1990s. She is credited with discovering the ocean beneath Europa’s ice shell.
Congestion pricing could cut L.A.’s traffic gridlock | Los Angeles Times
In other cities that have tried congestion pricing, people typically oppose the system before they’ve seen it work, said Brian Taylor, director of UCLA’s Institute for Transportation Studies. But “when people see it in practice, they tend to go majority opposition to majority support.”
Sotheby’s auction will benefit Hammer Museum artist fund | New York Times
On Thursday, the Hammer Museum at UCLA announced that more than 35 contemporary artists, including Ed Ruscha and Vija Celmins, will donate pieces to raise money for the museum’s new Artist Fund. Their work will be auctioned off in New York at Sotheby’s in May. Ann Philbin, the director of the Hammer, said that support is a testament to the closeness between the museum and the artists it exhibits. “Many of the artists in the auction have had long and deep relationships with the Hammer.”
How tribal values shape Judge Abby’s court | Christian Science Monitor
Among the first laws the state legislature passed was the legalization of the “indenture” of “any Indian.” American Indians were also barred from voting, from giving evidence for or against whites, and from serving on juries. In combination, those laws “amounted to a virtual grant of impunity to those who attacked them,” writes Benjamin Madley, a history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in an email.
Few rules protect kids in online videos | Associated Press
“From a developmental perspective, you have a dual role as a parent — you are their boss as well as their parent, and that’s very confusing for a child, especially for younger children who want to please their parents,” said Yalda T. Uhls, founder and executive director of University of California, Los Angeles’ Center for Scholars and Storytellers, which offers insights from research to guide children’s entertainment.
Talking about survivor’s guilt | HuffPost
Praveen Kambam, a clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, and co-founder of Broadcast Thought, said the condition can also occur in cancer survivors who “survive a diagnosis but others don’t.”
One reason wealthy students have a college admissions edge | MarketWatch
Though public flagship universities are often billed as engines of social and economic mobility for students and families in their states, their admissions representatives spend much of their time wooing out-of-state students from wealthy high schools, according to a study published Tuesday by the Joyce Foundation. ... “It appears that the majority of public flagship universities in our country spend most of their effort recruiting out of state students rather than the students from the states they were founded to serve,” said Ozan Jaquette, a professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and one of the authors of the study. (Also: Chronicle of Higher Education)
New York to hold hearing on school segregation | New York Daily News
Schools in New York suffer from the worst racial segregation of any state, with city schools earning similarly dismal marks for diversity, according to a landmark 2014 study published by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. A UCLA study four years later found the city had made some progress, with more white students entering schools in traditionally black and Hispanic communities.
Living near green space boosts teens’ mental health | Medical Xpress
Teenagers who live within a few blocks of green space are more likely to have better mental health than teens who don’t, according to a study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research… “The study suggests that older adults and teens seem to respond well mentally to nearby ‘doses’ of plants and trees,” said Ying-Ying Meng, co-director of the center’s Chronic Disease Program and a co-author of the study.
